Jared Smith claims to have shaved about seven strokes off his game this year, and is considered one of the favorites entering Monday’s Class 3A Southern Region tournament beginning Monday at Boulder City Municipal.
The ex-fiancee of Benjamin Sparks, the Nevada political consultant facing battery charges after he allegedly assaulted the woman and made her his sex slave, has hired attorney Gloria Allred a week before the case heads to a Las Vegas courtroom.
Edwin Burrows, a historian who won a Pulitzer Prize for an epic overview of New York City’s early history, has died. He was 74.
Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, offered to withdraw her nomination amid concerns that a debate over a harsh interrogation program would tarnish her reputation and that of the CIA.
Every day at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m., a National Weather Service staffer in Las Vegas office launches a weather balloon into the sky, providing a vertical snapshot of the atmosphere that meteorologists can’t get from instruments on the ground.
Jose Rodriguez opened Chavelo’s Mexican Bar Grill in January after years at the old Zapata’s and various renditions of Casa Mercado’s.
A new audit revealed that nearly 35 percent of elevators operating in Nevada — about 4,360 — did not have safety certificates in June 2017. Safety inspections and certifications are done annually, so some of the elevators may have since been certified, but information on current certification was not available in the audit.
A Colorado woman has been cited by police after a container of what appeared to be urine blew up as she was heating it up in a microwave at a 7-Eleven.
President Donald Trump’s new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is delivering confounding and at times contradictory statements as he tries to lessen the legal burdens on his client from an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and a $130,000 hush payment to a porn actress.
A poll released last month by AAA’s Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 87.5 percent of us believe distracted driving is getting worse, outpacing traffic congestion, aggressive drivers, motorists who use drugs and drunken driving as “growing concerns” on the road.
New York City’s Trinity Church, a tourist attraction loved for its ties to colonial America and links to a Broadway hit, will be largely closed to visitors during a two-year renovation intended to brighten the church and improve disabled access.
Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was put on the 10-day disabled list with left biceps tendinitis.
In its second weekend in theaters, “Avengers: Infinity War” continues to dominate in North America.
A MegaBucks player won more than $11 million Saturday night at a Las Vegas Strip resort.
The Las Vegas Valley this week could hit a triple-digit high for the first time in 2018, according to the National Weather Service.
With all the talk of Russian hacking, fake news and voter fraud, election security and integrity has become a paramount issue across the nation since the 2016 election.
John Jay Hagenbuch, a legacy Wynn Resorts director, is facing an uphill battle to get re-elected to the company’s board.
The number of homes destroyed by Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano jumped to 26 Sunday as scientists reported lava spewing more than 200 feet into the air.
As Nye County’s public administrator, an elected position for which there is no budget, ginger Stumne must appear at the scene of each unattended death across this vast but underpopulated county, home to just 43,000 residents.